Listed Buildings in Burghwallis

 

Burghwallis war memorial 

At the end of a very full day out to Campsall and Burghwallis, to conclude Church Explorers Week, the discovery of the red sandstone at St. Helen's church certainly provided food for thought and, before catching the No. 51 bus back to Doncaster, I completed a very brief Photo Challenge – starting in St. Helen's churchyard. 

 

My Photo Challenge for Burghwallis

 

First on my list was the Grade II Listed Coward family gravestone, commemorating James Coward (d.1780) and his parents Ann (d.1786) and Thomas (d.1794) and has the inscription 'In blooming youth unto this place I code, Readers repent your lot may be the same" beneath a scrolled pediment with roundels. 

 

A detail of the Coward family gravestone

 

Outside the porch are the remains of a stone cross, made from dolomitic limestone from the Cadeby Formation, which is both Grade II Listed and a Scheduled Monument and is thought to date to the late mediaeval period and in its original position. It is also considered to have once had a sundial on the top of the shaft, but this has been replaced with a C20 canopied cross. 

 

The mediaeval cross in St. Helen's churchyard

From St. Helen’s churchyard, I took a few photos of the rear and south-west elevation of the Old Rectory, now converted into three dwellings, which was rebuilt in 1815 by J. P. Pritchett and Charles Watson and is constructed with rendered brick. 

The rear elevation of the Old Rectory

 

On the south-west side of the churchyard is the Grade II* Listed St. Anne’s Rest Home, which Historic England (HE) considers to probably date to the early C16 and was extended in 1797 for George Anne and altered c.1820 for Michael Anne, with later additions. The description further mentions that it is built with Magnesian Limestone rubble masonry. 

 

St. Anne's Rest Home

I could only get a partial view from a distance but, when enlarging the single photo that I took, I can see that the walling is built with very thinly bedded limestone, which is probably locally quarried limestone from the Brotherton Formation, but the quoins and dressings are massive limestone from the Cadeby Formation. 

 

The gatepiers at the entrance to St. Anne's Rest Home

Making my back to Grange Lane, I continued past the entrance to St. Anne’s Rest Home, which has large rusticated massive dolomitic limestone gatepiers and, after noting the location of the bus stop, turned down Old Village Street and carried on to the south end of Well Lane, where I found the Grade II Listed pinfold. 

 

The pinfold on Well Lane

 

Returning to Grange Lane, I completed my Photo Challenge for Burghwallis at the war memorial (1922), which is in the form of a wheel cross and HE describe it as being made of Portland stone, but I didn’t get close enough to confirm this.

Burghwallis war memorial